ὑποδοχεῖον

ὑποδοχ-εῖον, τό,

• reservoir, Aristeas 89, 91, PTeb. 733.8 (ii B. C.); used for storage of (live ?) fish, PHamb. 6.10 (ii A. D.); of wine, PSI 8.918.2 (i A. D.), POxy. 729.28 (ii A. D.); τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος λέμβου Ἀντικλεῖ ἐν τῷ βασιλικῷ ὑ. PPetr. 2 p.64 (iii B. C., perh. = dock); coupled with διῶρυξ, PSI 9.1056.6 (vi A. D.); perh. also, store-house, barn, οἰκόπεδα καὶ ὑποδόχιον BGU 301.11 (ii A. D.), cf. PTeb. 86.15, al. (ii B. C.), etc.: metaph., entrepôt, Ἀπάμεια τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰταλίας καὶ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ὑ. κοινόν ἐστι Str. 12.8.15, cf. 17.1.13; ὑ. τροφῆς, of the stomach, Gal. 19.361.
• • II socket of door-hinge, IG ΙΙ(2).287 A 116 (Delos, iii B. C.). (In signf. I written ὑποδόχιον (less prob. ὑποδοχῖον) in PPetr. 2pp. 24,64 (iii B. C.), PTeb. 733.8 (ii B. C.), but ὑποδοχεῖον ( ὑποδόχειον) in PSI 10.1126.13 (iii A. D.), and codd. Aristeas, Str., Gal. ll.cc.; in signf. II ὑποδοχεῖον.)